Improvement in match-safes



-H. c', wlLcox. Match-Safe.

N0. 165.142. r Parentedjgne 29,1815.

THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOT0.-LITH.39&4'I PARK PLACLN( UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

HORACE C. WILCOX, OF WEST MEBIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORTO THE r MERIDENBRITANNIA COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MATCH-SAFES.

Specification forming part o f Letters Patent No. 165,142, dated J une29, 1875 application led J une 17, 1875.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, HoEAcE C. WrLccX, of WestMeriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Match-Safe; and l do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description .ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, in

Figure l, front view; Fig. 2, transverse section; Fig. 3, modificationof the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in match-safes, the objectbeing to combine with the match-holder a receiver for thepartially-consumed matches 5 and it consists in a case, Within which isa receiver for the matches,

. providedwith a hinged cover, and combined with a receiver, which' isopened by the raising of the cover, asmore fully hereinafter set forth.

A is the principal case, in the top of which is a receiver, B, for thematches, of any convenient shape. Over this is a cover, C,hinged i tothe principal case, as at c, and beneath the match-receiver B a space isleft Within the case to receive the partially-con snmed matches 5 andpreferably in this recess a drawer, D, is arranged, and from the cover Can arm, E, is connected by a rod, F, to the drawer, as seen in Fig. 2 5hence, when the cover is raised to open the receiver B, the drawer DWill be forced out, as denoted in broken lines, Fig. 2; or the front maybe hinged, as at d, and the rod F connected to that, as denoted in Fig.3, so that when the cover is raised it Will open the front, as denotedin broken lines, the principal feature being to'combine with theprincipal cover C a connection with the closing device for the spacebeneath the match-receiver, so that the opening and closing vof thecover C will cause a corresponding opening and closing of thewaste-receiver beneath.

I claim- The case A, constructed to form the matchreceiver B, and thespace for waste below,

combined with the hinged cover C, in connection with the device forclosing the said wastespace, substantially as described, so that theopening and closing of the cover correspondin gly opens and closes theWaste-space beneath.

HORACE C. WILCOX. Witnesses:

ORVILLE H. PLATT, JAMES l. PLATT.

